down on the other end of the bridge, this time knocking power lines on the tracks below. then a metro train with 41 passengers on board ran over it. >> they were not in any danger, but as the wire came down here on the overpass and also under the train, when the wheels became wrapped with our wire, if did damage our poll. >> reporter: the metro train came to a screeching halt along with a freight csx train. authorities waited for pepco to turn off the power. they sat on the train for # and a half hours. lucky the ac was still on. finally around 6:20, a rescue train pulled up behind the stalled one allowing all 41 passengers to cross over to safety. but the second storm impacted more than metro riders. it proved to an double whammy for nearby residents just getting back from being in the dark. >> it did impact the out answers. the outages in montgomery jumped up significantly and they are in part to what we have here

because, again, it took out several thousand customers. >> reporter: while there is good new, pepco was able to restore the power to many of the residents that lost it due to these counseled down the power lines here in silver springs. the other between news is that metro tells us the red line is back to normal and not expecting any delays this morning. all red line passenger were affected bay those downed power lines, but yesterday's ordeal was particularly frustrated for the passengers strand order that train in the middle of that mess. listen to this. >> we wait three hours. so that is not good. gr all things considered, things came together safely. >> first when the train stopped, i thought it would be something where we would just move on, the conductor kept saying we'll move momentarily, we'll move momentarily. about ten times after that, that's when we realized we'd be

stuck for a period of time. >> despite that ordeal, passengers say everyone stayed pretty calm for the most part. emphasis on for the most part. can you imagine that? >> wow. and the game changer would have been if they'd had no ac on that train. that would have really gotten ugly. >> you're not allowed food or drink, so you don't have any water. it could be very uncomfortable. >> already stranded and bothered by the whole thing and then, yikes. thunderstorms. more of them. >> not today. >> no, not today. >> today it feels nice. >> the ugh fact stoor is gone. a nice change from where we were 24 hours ago. cooler weather up across western and northern pennsylvania, all behind a weather front which is now way down to our south. high pressure coming on in, so a fantastic friday just around the corner. sunny, delightful today, sun

doesn't go down until 8:21 this evening. temperatures in the mid and upper 80s today, same thing tomorrow, with gradually increasing clouds on your saturday. jerry, if you've got to mow the lawn, saturday is your better choice? >> all right, i'll think about it. let's head on out and see how we're doing this morning. and we're doing pretty well. had overnight road work, of course 95, capital beltway in virginia, just a little volume northbound as you commute north to springfield. maryland, so far so good. american legion bridge, outer loop, inner loop, all is well. joe, pat? >> thanks very much, jerry. well, with just a day left in july, it's already become the deadliest month for u.s. forces in afghanistan. overnight, we learned three more u.s. service members have been killed. a nato statement released earl i didn't this morning says the measures died in two separate blasts. those three deaths bring the u.s. death toll in afghanistan to at least 63 according to the

associated press. that's the largest number in one month in the history of the nearly nine year war. we're following a developing story out of california this morning. that's where firefighters are trying to get a handle on a blaze it that has scorched more than 2,000 acres overnight in los angeles county. the blaze broke out yesterday afternoon and quickly spread over seven square miles. about 1200 homes were under a mandatory evacuation orders last night, but so far none of the homes has been damaged. another massive fire near the mojave desert that has spread over 1500 miles was almost 50% contained yesterday with help of some cooler wet out there. the state of arizona wasted no time filing a federal appeal to block an injunction, a controversial measures in that new immigration law. key provisions would have allowed officerses to ask people their legal status and they would have required immigrants to carry their papers at all times. hundreds on both sides of the

issue took to the streets of downtown phoenix, but the injunction didn't stop sheriff's deputies from their planned immigration crackdown. they arrested people in a sweep designed to catch illegal immigrants. >> we're not going to let protesters hold this sheriff and my office hostage because they don't want us to book people into the jail. >> supporters of the arizona law say police can still demand proof of citizenship if they have reason to doubt someone's status. turns out that more than 6,000 graves at arlington national cemetery might be mislabeled. that estimate is far higher than the number initially reported. >> it's called keeping track of who you bury where. >> the revelation came out yesterday during a congressional hearing on the scandal. the cemetery's former superintendent is taking full

responsibility. john metzler offed that his staff and a lack of resourceses are to blame for the verse that i cost him his job. a former know that is satisfies high school teacher has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting one of his former students. but investigators say this prompted an investigation that found multiple young victims both here and abroad. jewelsquu julie carey has the story. >> reporter: investigators believe kevin ricks has sexually abused many boys over the past four decades, but today in a prince william county courtroom, he pleaded guilty to just one charge of in-decent liberties involving one young victim, a former student p 37 court documents say in in incident and others before it, ricks gave the victim large quantities of tequila, then assaulted him. in some cases the victims passed out before ricks allegedly abused him. >> he's very cunning, very smart. he endeared himself to people. a lot of people could not believe he would do such a thing that knew him, but nevertheless

he used a method of getting these young people intoxicated and many of course were molested without knowing what had happened to them. >> kevin ricks came to court expect to go complete guilty, but got a big surprise while he was there. he earned of the new federal case against him. there he's been indicted on charges of transportation and possession of child pornography. ricks, a popular english teacher and frequent exchange student host, was arrested inside osbourne high in february. investigators were tipped by a female friend of the victim who noticed an odd facebook posting that read you told me our experience was your first with a guy. as the federal search warrant affidavit shows, on ricks' laptop, investigators found photos of young victims, some naked, others depicted in sex act. they also discovered a journal containing hundreds of entries that describe sexual acts with a number of conscious and unconscious minor males in locations ranging there virginia and maryland to japan.

osbourne high school students have been following the case and say ricks was the kind of teacher who treated students in friends. in behind sight they now see the red flags. >> it's kind of creepy going to the movies with students and all this, but i guess at the time i thought as an exchange student, he's just trying to spend time with him, just trying to get to know him. >> with the whole thing jumping from school to school, all i have to say, i think he put on an amazing mask because it was very discreet. >> reporter: a recent "washington post" investigation of rickss' activity shows school officials had been warned of inappropriate behavior. prosecutor ebert it says the case reveals ricks might have been stopped sooner if school fir of officials had paid closer attention to the red flags. julie carey, news 4 manassas. our time is 4:38. ahead on news 4 "today," confession the d.c. sniper.

what lee boyd malveaux is claiming. how a bathroom break has created new drama for albert haynesworth. and up next, a look at the weekend. wet and traffic are coming up.

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albert haynesworth h try again to pass a conditioning test that he failed yesterday. haynesworth took a bathroom break halfway throughout test and mike shanahan made him start all over again when he returned. the end result was a failing grade. and that kept him from practicing with the rest of the team during the first day of training camp. haynesworth says he just wants to play football. shanahan says he must pass that conditioning test first. >> obviously you'd like him to be in the type of shape that most of our players are in and the about the line is we're going to get him in shape. he's going to be on our football

team and he's going to play at the level we'd like him to play, then he's got to be in great football shape. >> shanahan says that haynesworth was, quote, first class all the way when he learned that he had failed the test. a grand jury has endited one of two suspects in connection with the murder of a maryland state trooper. prince george's county prosecutors say the suspect participated in the death of trooper wesley brown last month. derrick ward has details. >> reporter: authorities say anthony andre milton was the man that williamss called after being ejected from the applebee's restaurant on june 11th. wesley trooper died that night gunned down in the parking lot with the weapon that police believe milton brought with him and handed to williams, the alleged shooter. >> if you're part of the team that commits the crime, you can be held accountable for the final result. and so this is an ak com police hiblt charge.

>> reporter: the charges include first-degree murder and first degree conspiracy to commit murder as well as a trio of handgun offenses. >> even though he wasn't the shooter, he was under the indictment it allegeses that he was a key player in this. >> reporter: williams also faces first-degree murder and other charges in connection with trooper brown's killing. according to legal documents, milton waived his right, agreed to talk to investigators, and admitted to going to the applebee's restaurant and shooting trooper brown. derrick ward, news 4. ifle anthony milton is convicted, key get life in prison plus 20 years. his next court date hasn't been set get. a nurse's strike could be looming at a d.c. hospital. washington hospital center is waiting to learn whether it could be without its regular nursing staff for 24 hours. the hospital's 1600 registered nurses voted last night on whether to go on a one day strike. the result of this vote is expected to be announced on monday. the strike would be to protest the dismissal of some 18 nurses

who were fired because they did not make it to work during the february blizzards. the hospital says it will bring in temporary nursing staff if that strike does take place. president obama heads to detroit this morning to visit gm and chrysler plants. this this is on the heels of a white house report highlighting what the administration called success stories of the auto industry bail squout. however, republicans are saying that it failed to deliver on its promises. tracie potts has our story. about. >> reporter: president obama's defense today starts with a new white house report that claims his $60 billion auto bailout saved jobs. >> if we hadn't have stepped it in, most observers believe at least a million jobs would have been lost. >> reporter: instead the administration says the industry's added 55,000 jobs since the bailout, but republicans argue taxing

business isn't help to go creating more. >> why would we want to raise taxes on manufacturers when we want the jobs to remain in america? they don't get it. pure and simple. >> reporter: president obama will visit chrysler and general motors plants today. gm could go public this year helping recoup some of the taxpayers' money. >> the taxpayers won't be on the hook for one dime of money. >> reporter: but that could take years. meantime ford says customers are rewarding the company for not taking bailout funds. >> the feeling that we didn't take the precious taxpayer money when we were running a good business with great products. >> reporter: like the new fuel efficient explorer which he says will create 1200 jobs. the government's actually invested $85 billion in the auto industry, 60 from the obama administration, 25 from president bush. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. do you have a question or

for bob mcdonald? you now have a chance to ask the governor yourself, next month, that is. mcdonnell will be holding eight town hold meetings to talk about issues that are facing virginians. the first on august 24th at the university of maryland washington in fredericksburg. the next one h will be held a day hater in herndon at the northern virginia technology council auditorium, also beginning at 7:00 p.m. one of the original tuskegee airmen has been to rest. lieutenant colonel span watson grew up in south carolina during the 1920s. he became one of the first black pilots to fly combat missions for the u.s. during world war ii as part of the famed 99th pursuit squadron. he went on to teach other pilots how to fly and how to break barriers. >> the whole problem of racism and racial barriers was something that he encountered

all his life. and so he didn't think it was something he would necessarily beat or totally concur in his life, but he was determined to fight it for as long as he lived. >> watson was 93 years old. >> what a life. >> what a life, exactly. >> good stuff there. beautiful weather finally returns back to the area. a little bit of another break from the humidity out there. finally you've been waiting all week. saying it just can't stay this hot forever and it didn't. after a couple more days in the steam bath, we finish it off with another round of thunderstorms late yesterday afternoon and now we get the payoff. beautiful weather outside for today and for tomorrow. i'm mildly concerned about your outdoor activities on sunday. we'll talk about that in just a second. but for now, your friday is off to a wonderful start. clear skies out there first thing this morning. our temperature has now eased down to 74 degrees here in washington. most important number of all, as

usual, the dew point temperature. 58. anytime that number is below 60, that's the good comfy stuff that we enjoy. rainfall amounts yesterday 0.7 of an inch at the airport. temperatures this morning 60s in the western and northern suburbs to low 70s around town and right along the bay. great weather coming our way for today. current temperature buffalo, 60 degrees for a current temperature. almost cool by late july standards. and the dry area has been pushed all the way down to carolina/virginia border. our dew points have dropped 15 to 20 degrees now since the same time yesterday. so if you're going outside to get your morning walk or jog under way, be ready for a nice change of pace. cooler air, lower humidity, thanks to this big cell of high pressure will provide us with great weather all the way through today and tomorrow. so today sunshine, delightful.

temperatures today mid to high 80s. typical by late july standards. here's your beach forecast if you're headed down to the beach. it's going to be a good one. great weather for today and for tomorrow, as well. sunday, though, let's just focus on how nice today and tomorrow will be, shall we? sunshine the next two days. a pretty good chance of rain showers showing up on sunday afternoon. some of them might even arrive late saturday night and then just back to the usual hazy, hot and humid by the mend of next week. let's see how we're doing on the roads. no weather concerns traffic wise. doing just fine. the drive along interstate 270, frederick all the way done passing clarksburg, german town, rockville moving along very nicely. let's head on oversee if there's anything to concern ourselves with inbound 66, the overnight road work approaching the capital beltway has cleared. at one point it was pretty well backed up, but moving along nicely. wilson bridge, no worries there. you'll find the lanes open. 295, capital street into the

anacostia area and across the bridges all moving along with no delays. the tysons connector bus service may be running out of gas. fairfax county leaders are thinking about shutting down the shuttle program. according to a report in the washington examiner news paper, the bus service began in november and runs a loop through the tysons area about every ten minutes from 10:00 a.m. on 2:30 p.m. the problem is it picks up fewer than 100 passengerses on an average day and costs about $1 million a year to operate. the fairfax county board of supervisors plans to take another look at the shuttle program in september. the time now is 4:54. and coming up this morning, a local politician takes aim at pepco. plus why this coming weekend could be a crucial one finally in permanently fixing the damaged oil well in the gulf. and the wild claims being made by the convicted d.c.

welcome back. there may be a couple people out there who will that took part in the d.c. sniper attacks. that's according to lee boyd malvo who claims that two other people planned to participate in that shooting spree, but eventually backed out. malvo made those revelations or those claims in a special on a and e cable network.

during the program, a forensic psychiatrist also said that malvo claims to be connected to more than 40 shootings. he's been officially linked to 27 shootings including the ten deadly shootings in the three week shooting spree that terrorized the washington region. malvo is currently being held in a virginia prison. the other convicted sniper was executed last year. now the latest on the gulf oil disaster. it's going to be a crucial weekend coming up in the final preparation for permanently sealing that broken well that's been leaking. wil full containment is getting closer, the cleanup continues. leanne gregg has the latest. >> reporter: one small part of a huge cleanup in louisiana marshlands. while a critical job is ahead in the coming days leading to plugging the damaged rig for good. if preliminary work this weekend goes as planned, a method intended to ease the job of a permanent fix could start monday or sooner. >> we could maybe see this thing

accelerated in to the weekend, but right now, let hold it monday. >> reporter: the static kill that involves pumping heavy mud into the busted well from the top is on track for completion next week. then a relief well will be used to pump if more mud and cement from the bottom, a process that could take days or weeks depending on how well the static kill works. after the fractured rig is fixed and there's less and less oil in the gulf waters, the mission will shift from response to long term recovery. that means less work for skimming vessels, an economic life line for out of work fishermen. >> we need toed a just the vessel opportunitieses, all of our resources, to what the requirement is. >> reporter: a shift concerning for louisiana parish presidents. >> we're going to hold their feet to the fire to make sure they're there until all of the oil is gone out of the gulf of mexico. >> reporter: more worries as full containment nears. leanne gregg, nbc news. >> as for the use of local fishermen's boats, the incident

commander says as the oil diminishes, they may still use some of those boats to put out sensors to monitor oil as booms and response equipment are removed. they are working on a plan to figure out the type of force they'll need and for how long they'll need it. stay with us new. "news 4 today" continues right now at 5:00. back on track. what to expect during this morning's rush hour after chaotic scene on the tracks last night. good morning. >> welcome to "news 4 today." it's july 30th, 2010. and here's a look at the washington monument under a sun lit sky. going to be a nice fresh friday morning out there. chuck is here with the latest on the forecast. >> that's a huge change. >> that is a nice change.

and i think everyone's going to really appreciate the difference. if you're been waiting all week long because it's too hot to get outside, today is your day. and on top of that, it's friday, everybody. your weekend just around the corner. outside on a friday morning with a clear sky, temperature at national airport only 72 degrees. but a lot lower humidity compared to the last few days. 64 in frederick. 62, so nice cool air out there. no heat indexes to worry about for your friday. bright sunshine, the sun is still an hour and six minutes from coming up over the horizon. temperature shoes climb into the high 80s. first pitch 7:# 5 this evening taking on the phillies. first pitch temperature right around 82 degrees. perfect weather for baseball. good weather for tomorrow, as well, but i'm concerned that sunday will be a bit on the

showery side. >> oh, darn, i was going to do all my yard work then. let's how we're doing. super springfield up to 66, doing all right. all the overnight road work's been wramped up. police activity, 17th street just before contusion avenue blocked off right now because of some unsan antonio police activity, so we'll check on that. mark rail has confirmed now the following brunswick line trains are canceled this morning. 872, 874, 892 and 894, all those trains canceled this morning on brunswick because of the issues from last might. we'll certainly keep you updated on that. joe? all right, thanks very much. with one day left in july, it's already become the deadliest month for u.s. forces in afghanistan. overnight we learned that three more u.s. service members have

been killed. the americans died in two separate blasts. those three deaths bring the u.s. death toll in afghanistan to at least 63 according to the associated press. now, that's the high he is one month total in the history of the nearly nine year long war. >> there shouldn't be any delays this morning if you plan to take metro's red line to work. power lines fell on the metro tracks yesterday between silver spring and forest glenn stations stranding passengers for hours. john trifen. >> reporter:ing they were felt from union station to more than montgomery county. >> it was a huge explosion. we jumped and turned around and there was an arc, a huge arc, of electrical fire in the sky. >> reporter: valerie price witnessed mother nature's latest

fury. a tree fell on the power lines. danny was walking across the bridge when the power lines caught on fire. >> you could feel the surge from here all the way back to the start of the bridge and then those power lines dropped and fell on the bridge. >> reporter: mother nature wasn't done. pepco says another tree fell down on the other end of the bridge, this time knocking power lines on the tracks below. then a metro train with 41 passengers on board ran over it. >> they were not in any danger, but as the wire came down here on the overpass and also under the train, when the wheels became wrapped with our wire, it did damage our pole. >> reporter: the metro train came to a screeching halt along with a freight csx train. authorities waited for pepco to turn off the power. they sat on the train for two and a half hours. luckily the ac was still on. finally around 6:20, a rescue train pulled up behind the stalled one allowing all 41 passengers to cross over to safety. but the second storm impacted more than metro riders.

it proved to be a double whammy for nearby residents just getting back from being in the dark. >> it did impact the outages. the outages in montgomery jumped up significantly and they are in part to what we have here because, again, it took out several thousand customers. >> reporter: while there is good newa, pepco was able to restore the power to many of the residents that lost it due to these downed power lines here in silver springs. the other good news is that metro tells us the red line is back to normal and not expecting any delays this morning. >> right now more than 2600 customers in montgomery county still have no electricity. the total is more than 200 in prince george's county and about 100 here in the district. many montgomery county residents are furious with pepco over this week's power outages. county exec it differenutives w scolding letter to the ceo of pepco holdings. in the letter, quote, i'm at a

loss to explain to county residents why pepco took so long to mobilize sufficient contractors to assist in restoring service to its many customers. county residents and businesses deserve much better and more reliable service than we are receiving according to the letter. community activist from rock lil have be laid to rest tomorrow nearly a week after he was struck by lightning. 48-year-old carl henn was at a pick nim with a group of fellow gardeners when he was hit on sunday. he was an environmentalist and recently ran for rockville city council. henn's funeral will take place tomorrow morning at 9:30 at the f scott fitzgerald theater at rockville civic center park. that's located on edmondton drive. we're following a developing story out of california where firefighters are trying to get a handle on a blaze that has scorched more than 2,000 acres. that blaze broke out yesterday

afternoon, quickly spread over seven square miles. about 1200 homes were under mandatory evacuation orders last night, but so far none has been damaged. another massive fire near the mojave desert that has spread over 1500 miles was almost 50% contained yesterday with the help of some cooler weather out there. the state of arizona wasted no time filing a federal appeal to block an injunction. key provisions would have allowed police to ask people their legal status and would have required immigrants to carry their papers at all times. yesterday hundreds on both sides of the issue took to the streets but the injunction did not shop tariff's deputies from their planned immigration crackdown. phoenix area deputies arrested people in a sweep designed to catch illegal immigrants. >> we're not going let protesters hold this sheriff and

my office hostage because they don't want us to become people into the jail. >> backers of the arizona law say police are still demand proof of citizenship if they have reason to doubt a person's status. time is 5:08. and ahead on news 4 today, this morning, the man at the center of the leaked documents scandal is headed to this area. also it's not the start they envisioned. what the coach says about albert haynesworth's failing grade. and we'll check out the weekend weather and the

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the time 5:11 on a friday morning. beautiful weather outside for today and for tomorrow. all those things you needed to do outside and you just refused to do when it was so hot and sticky, today and tomorrow will will be a good day to get caught up. temperatures from the mid to high 60s now in the western suburbs to right around 70 here in town and low 70s right up alongside the bay. beautiful weather for today. sunshine, high temperature near 87 degrees. increasing clouds on your saturday, but i think any rain chances on saturday are so late in the day that i'm going to wait and put them on your sunday, but i'm pretty confident now that sunday will have showers and maybe a rumble or two of thunder.

so if you need to do it outside, today and tomorrow are the days. as we travel into silver spring along george avenue, pretty quiet, however, we've just received word that spring street just off of george avenue is now closed because of wires down. something we certainly don't want to hear. so we're investigating that as our authorities. but george avenue appears to be open. capital beltway inner loop near route 7 had word of a broken down truck in the roadway, so authorities are dealing with that. elsewhere, constitution avenue and 17th downtown both constitution avenue and parts of 17th street we're told closed because of continuing ongoing police investigation. we'll keep you updated on that. the time now is 5:12. ahead on "news 4 today," a d.c. hospital may have to go a day without all of its nursing staff. we'll tell you what they plan to do. plus the woman whose firing because avid i don't posted online causing a huge controversy is now planning to

launch a legal battle. and a bathroom break sort of routined albert haynesworth's first day at training camp.

service on the red line should be back to normal this morning after yesterday's storm brought a power line down on the tracks. a train with 41 passengers was stuck for about three hours and computer rail service was halted just before the evening rush hour. power has finally been restored to most area residents after sunday's storms. pepco says about 3,000 customers in maryland and the district are still in the dark this morning. montgomery county executives are still upset. they wrote a letter demanding answers about what took so long to restore the power. more than 1200 homes were

evacuated as firefighters waltzed a blawalt battled a blaze in california. the fire was sparked yesterday in rural los angeles county. cool weather helped firefighters contain another massive fire near the mojave desert that has claimed more than 30 homes. washington defensive tackle albert haynesworth will try again today to pass the conditioning test that he failed yesterday. haynesworth took a bathroom break halfway through yesterday's training session and mike shanahan made him start all over again when he got back from the bathroom. the end result, a failing grade. that kept haynesworth from fromming with the rest of the team. haynesworth says he just wants to play football. shanahan, though, says he has to pass the conditioning test first. >> you'd like him to be in the type of shape that most of our players are in. and the bottom line is we're going to to get him in shape. he's going to be on our football

team and he's going to play at the level we'd like him to play, then he's got to be in great football shape. >> shanahan says haynesworth attitude was first class all the way when he learned that he'd failed the test. you'll have to wait a little while longer to see stephen strasburg pitch again. the nationals placed their staff pitch other the 15 day disabled list yesterday because of his sore shoulder. he was scratched from tuesday night's game after he had trouble getting loose before the game. the nats say there is nothing seriously wrong with him, that they're just being extremely careful. manager jim rig he will man says he expects strasburg to pitch again for the team this season. the same cannot be said for mike caps at least with the nationals. the team traded their all-star closer to the twins. the nats get catching process swekt wilson ramos in return. he had 26 saves this season, fourth best in the national

league and of course he won the game for the national league during the all-star game. an army private face as court marshall in connection with a wikileaks war document controversy. nbc news learned bradley manning could be tried at either fort mire in arlington or quantitity coma reason base. the pentagon is reportedly also focusing on him in connection with the latest disclosure of secret documents related to the war in afghanistan. top defense officials say they're still determining the potential security risks brought on by the leak. they came down hard on the website that released the documents. >> there is no accountability. there is no sense of responsibility. >> the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an afghan family. >> the pentagon says the fbi has joined the criminal probe into the leak. officials say manning is essentially now on suicide watch

out of fear that he may hurt himself. ousted moi eshirley sherrod says that she will sue conservative blogger andr eger the video that prompted the usda to ask for sherrod's resignation. she has since been offered a new job with the agency and the obama administration has apologized to her. sherrod says she's still considering the job offer. president obama heads to detroit this morning to visit gm and skrchrysler plants there one heels of a white house report highlighting what the administration calls success stories of the industry bailout, but republicans are saying the bailout has failed to deliver on it promises. tracie potts reports. >> reporter: president obama's defense today starts with a new

white house report that claims his $60 billion auto bailout saved jobs. >> if we hadn't have stepped in, most observers believe at least a million jobs would have been lost. >> reporter: instead the administration says the industry's added 55,000 jobs since the bailout, but republicans argue taxing business isn't helping to creating more. >> why would we want to raise taxes on manufacturers when we want the jobs to remain in america? they don't get it. pure and simple. >> reporter: president obama will visit chrysler and general motors plants today. gm could go public this year helping recoup some of the taxpayers' money. >> the taxpayers won't be on the hook for one dime of money. >> reporter: but that could take years. meantime ford says customers are rewarding the company for not taking bailout funds. >> the feeling that we didn't take the precious taxpayer money when we were running a good business with great products. >> reporter: like the new fuel efficient explorer which he says will create 1200 jobs.

the government's actually invested $85 billion in the auto industry, 60 from the obama administration, 25 from president bush. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. a nurse's strike could be looming at one d.c. hospital. washington hospital centers waiting to learn whether it could be without its regular nursing staff for 24 hours. hospital's 1600 registered nurses voted last night whether to go on a one day strike. the result of that vote is expected to be announced on monday. the strike would be to protest the dismissal of 18 nurses who were fired because they did not make to work during the february blizzards. the hospital says it will bring in temporary nursing staff if a strike does occur. turning to the weather, it's turned pretty nice to start out the weekend. >> you know it's going to be a good day when you can drive to work with the windows open and not be upset about that decision. good weather on your friday. it it will be a beauty of a day

today. great kite flying weather. it's been too hot and stifling for to you take the hot out, this is the day for it. temperatures only in the upper 60s and low 70s right now around town. washington now at 72. upper marlboro, 66. manassas, virginia, 64 degrees. you're one of the cooler spots temperature due points are back into the 50s. that's the good comfy stuff that we enjoy. today and tomorrow will be a number one fantastic. and another chance for some needed rain showers shows up on sunday and monday. jerry, over to you for a check on traffic. we'll head on downtown where police tell us they still have constitution avenue blocked off 15th, 17th and parts of 17th street may be blocked off because of what they're telling us is police activity. that's all we know right now. let's head over and see how we're doing elsewhere. 395 at the 14th street bridge is okay. out on the rails this morning so far, metro rail is fine. vre okay. a and marc rail, we do have

those cancellations, 872, 874, 892, and 894 all canceled. pat and joe, back to you. our time 5:22. coming up, another metro fare hike set to take effect, but there is it a silver lining for morning commuters. also the judge in the rod blagojevich trial shoots down a request from the jury. and next an update on the search for that bear blamed for a deadly attack near yellowstone national park.

rangers in montana have trapped a grizzly bear they believe was responsible for a series of attacks outside of yellowstone national park. the rangers trapped the 400 pound bear and two of her three cubs yesterday. now they're conducting dna tests to see whether that bear is hinge hed to these attacks. one man was killed and two others were injured as they slept wednesday morning in separate attack. if the dna tests show that this is the bear that attacked, it will likely be put down. rangers say these kinds of unprovoked attacks are extremely rare. jurors in the rod blagojevich trial will continue their deliberations today without information they've wanted. the judge denied the jury's request for transcriptses of the closing arguments because it's not evidence. the former illinois governor and his brother are accused of

trying to sell president obama's former senate seat. they both pleaded not guilty to the chargeses. time 5:26. we have 70 degrees out there. fresh air, as well. downed wires derailed a commute. what to expect when you head out the door this morning. also metro's next fare hike is right around the corner. why the morning rush won't cost you anymor

people are paying a lot more money to ride the subway for terrible service. getting ready to go up on august the 1st and it's no better. feeling down, falling wires reeked havoc on the commute last night. what it means for you today. and ready to run temperature door storming brides are ve s sleeping outside this morning all hoping to get a first crack at some great deals on wedding dresseses. good morning. >> welcome to "news 4 today," it is friday, july 30th. a beautiful sky out there. take a look at that huffily beginning of the sunrise. 71 degrees right now. >> beginning of a lovely weekend.

>> takes gorgeous morning. >> wonderful weather to be outside. a perfect change of air mass since yesterday morning. temperatures have made it back down into the 60s in many of our western suburbs now, even out towards the shenandoah valley, 67 now in martinsburg, 66 in hagarstown. 62 in columbus, ohio, so nice cool air upstream from us. there's a look at the satellite. high pressure coming on in. a fantastic friday and the weekend will start dry, too. highs today mid to upper 80s. very typical by late july standards. mid-80s tomorrow with the clouds sneaking back into our picture. i think late saturday night but more likely into the day on sunday, more chances for some needed rain showers. now a check on the roads.

270 northbound and southbound right it now between the kalt beltway and frederick, no early hang-ups. travel lanes are open moving very smoothly. let's see if that's the case along 66 approaching the beltway. just a bit of volume. getting initial reports of an accident 66 eastbound just inside the beltway. police are headed over there. west on 66, beltway out to fair oaks, you're looking good. out to the rails. so far metro rails doing fine. vre, one delay, fredericksburg train 302. marc rail, brunswick line train 870 is seven minutes. we have cancellations on the following trains on brunswick line. 872, 872874, 892 and 894. crane trues must have a certain amount of rest before they worked next day. because the lateness of the trains last night, because of the power lines down, those crews have not had enough rest to operate the trains this morning. so we'll keep you updated on

that. metro riders will have a little longer to pad their pockets in preparation for new fare hikes. the second phase of metro's fair increase set to take effect on monday will now take place in two steps. on monday, a new 20 cent fee will take effect just for the afternoons. it the not apply to morning fares until later in the month. metro says the two accept increase was needed to allow more time to upgrade fare gates to handle the fare hike. don't expect any major delays this morning if you take metro's red line to work. trains are running normally after power lines fell on to the tracks yesterday and of course that created a major headache for thousands of commuters there union station all the way into northern montgomery county. you might need to make some adjustments, though, if you do take marc to work as we've been hear trg jing from jerry.

megan mac grcdwratgrath is live. >> reporter: you shouldn't encounter any results as a result of yesterday. everything is back to normal, regular service here this morning. however, not the case if you take the brunswick line on marc rail. we're seeing cancellations this morning because of what happened yesterday with those downed power lines. remember the storm that blew through yesterday afternoon that caused power lines to fall down on the tracks and actually a metro train that was traveling between the forest glenn and silver spring stations ran over those downed wires. the wires became tangled around the wheel of the train. and so those folks had to come it screeching halt and sit there on the tracks until that live wire was deenergized. and it was safe for them to board a different train and leave the area. they sat there on the track positive about 2 1/2 hours yesterday. this caused major delays all across the metro system as people had to be shuttled between that area because literally that train was just sitting there on the tracks for a number of hours. there were also delays along the

marc rail system. they share the same track system. so marc rail also had significant delays on the brunswick line yesterday. now, everything has been removed. the line has been repaired. no problems. but we're still see something issues on the marc rail lines this morning on the brunswick line because of federal regulations that require crews to have a certain amount of rest in between shifts. because of the lateness of those trains, they didn't get that rest. so here are the trains that have been canceled this morning. brunswick line 890, 872, 874, and 892, those trains have been canceled this morning. those crews simply did not get enough rest in between shifts. because of the federal regulations, they cannot operate those trains. they're making some adjustments. bringing people in. so hopefully things will be back to normal in time for the evening rush. but if you ride the brunswick line on marc rail, you could see some issues here this morning. back to you in the studio.

>> megan mcgrath, thanks very much. we're following a developing story this morning out of california. that's where firefighters are trying to get control of a blaze that scorched over 2,000 acres overnight in los angeles county. a fire broke out yesterday afternoon and quickly spread over seven square miles. about 1200 homes were under mandatory evacuation orders last night, but so far none of them damaged. another massive fire near the mojave desert that has spread over 1500 miles was almost 50% contained yesterday thanks to some cooler weather. they waste in order time to file an appeal in the injunction of its new immigration law. it would have allowed officers to ask people their legal status and require immigrants to carry their papers at all times. hundreds on both sides of the issue took to the streets of downtown phoenix, but the

injunction did not keep sheriff's deputies from their planned immigration crackdown. phoenix area deputies arrested people in a sweep designed to catch the illegal immigrants. >> we're not going to let protesters hold this sheriff and my office hostage because they don't want us to book people into the jail. >> supporters of the arizona law say the police can still demand proof of citizenship if they have reason to doubt someone's citizenship status. happening today, a bargain shopper's dream. designer wedding gown for a fraction of the price. but you may not want to get caught in the running of the brides because you could get trampled. here's a live look now outside filene's basement. you can see several brides to be gathering for a deal. several spent the night there. these ladies are hoping to get a wedding gown for as little as

249 bucks. there are roughly 1700 gowns and each bride has her plan of attack. >> plan to getting there, running around, grab as many dresses as we can and, you know, show my team members to know what to look for. run, grab, fight. every man for themselves. every woman, of course. >> they are serious about this. dozens of people have lined up overnight to get those bargains. for year this is is an annual tradition. some have everyone camped out this year in tents. a lot of people who go to spain for the running of the bulls wouldn't come near that event. >> of course not. 5:38. 70 degrees. we now know one bride who will not be run to go find her dress. coming up, the latest buzz on chelsea clinton's top secret wedding plans. >> these got that dress all

ready. plus, heat on the hill over the scandal that's rocked arlington national cemetery. >> and next a look at the weather and traffic coming up.

72 degrees in washington. 67 in winchester. 65 degrees in coolsville. 74 in annapolis. going to the baseball game, perfect weather tonight as we try to whip up on the phillies. great weather lasts through tomorrow, as well. can downtown, 395 to the 14th street bridge doing okay. we'll check things out elsewhere. we have the continuing police activity, parts of constitution avenue and 1th street closed off right now. 270 no worries. out to the rails very quickly, right now looks like metro is doing fine. fredericksburg 302, vre running

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were there others who planned to take the d.c. sniper attacks? lee boyd malvo claims two other people planned to participate in the shooting spree but eventually backed out. malvo made the revelations in an interview with william shatner on and e during the program a forensic psychiatrist also said malvo claims to be connected to more than 40 shootings. he's been officially linked to 27 including the 10 deadly attacks in the shooting spree that terrorized the washington region. he's being held in a virginia prison. the other sniper was executed last year. a popular store owner in northeast washington is talking about a brutal attack at the hands of armed men. mo abdi was back at his clothing store one day after being pistol whipped and robbed. this happened in the atlas theater district wednesday afternoon. he talked with news 4 about the armed robbery that left him

beaten and tied up by shoe strings. >> leave me alone, take whatever you want, don't touch me. about thank god i'm alive today. >> he has 21 stitches where they beat him in the eye with a gun. police made no arrest in the case. a former manassas high school teach are has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting one of his former students. kevin ricks entered the built itity plea yesterday, but he's now being investigated on federal child pornography charges p investigators say they found pictures and a notebook describing sexual acts that ricks xhiltsed with former students over the past four decades. they took place as far away as japan. students say ricks was a well liked teacher who often hosted exchange students and was

considered a friend. >> kind of creepy going to to the movies with students and all this, but i guess at the time i thought it's an exchange student, he's just trying on intend ti spend time with him and get to though him. >> prosecutors say schools where ricks had worked had been warned of inappropriate behavior and he may have been stopped sooner if they'd paid attention to the red flags. a man has been indicted in the death of wesley brown. prince i don't remember's county prosecutors charged 28-year-old anthony milton for participating in the trooper's murder. brown was killed last month while working as an off duty security guard at an applebee's restaurant in forestville. police say the gun used in his death belonged to milton, but there dough not believe that it was he who actually pulled the trigger. milton's charges still include first-degree murder and several handgun offenses. >> if you're part of the team that commits the crime, you can be held accountable for the

final result. and so this is an accomplice liability charge with respect to mr. milton. police say milton waived his rights and admitted to his involvement in the crime. if he's convicted on all the charges, he could face life in prison plus 20 years. more than 6,000 graves at arlington national cemetery might be mislabeled. that estimate is far higher than the 211 initially reported. >> this is not complicated. it's called keeping track of who you bury where. >> the revelation surfaced yesterday during a congressional hearing on the scandal. the cemetery's former superintendent is taking full responsibility. john metler testified that his staff and a lack of resources are to blame for the controversy that cost his his job. a nurse's strike could be looming at washington hospital centers, they're waiting to learn whether it could be without its regular nursing staff for a period of 24 hours.

the hospital's 1600 registered nurses voted last night on whether to go on a one day strike. the result of that vote is expected to be announced on monday. the strike would be to protest the firing of 18 nurses who did not show up or were not able to make it into work during the february blizzards. the hospital says it will bring in temporary nursing staff if that strike does occur. now the latest on the gulf oil disaster. this is going to be a crucial weekend in the final preparations for permanently sealing that broken well that's been leaking oil in the gulf. w while full containment is getting closer, the cleanup continues. >> reporter: one small part of a huge cleanup in louisiana marshlands. while a critical job is ahead in the coming days leading to plugging the damaged rig for good. if preliminary work this weekend goes as planned, a method intended to ease the job of a permanent fix could start monday or sooner.

>> we could maybe see this thing accelerated in to the weekend, but right now, let's hold it monday. >> reporter: the static kill that involves pumping heavy mud into the busted well from the top is on track for completion next week. then a relief well will be used to pump in more mud and cement from the bottom, a process that could take days or weeks depending on how well the static kill works. after the fractured rig is fixed and there's less and less oil in the gulf waters, the mission will shift from response to long term recovery. that means less work for skimming vessels, an economic lifeline for out of work fishermen. >> we need to adjust the vessel opportunities, all of our resources, to what the requirement is. >> reporter: a shift concerning for louisiana parish presidents. >> we're going to hold their feet to the fire to make sure they're there until all of the oil is gone out of the gulf of mexico. >> reporter: more worries as full containment nears. leanne gregg, nbc news.

let's get a look at our traffic and weather together on the 1s. >> a beautiful day outside. we're ready for it after yesterday, another round of thunderstorms just what a lot of folks did not need. now, though, the payoff pitch comes. it will be a beauty of a day outside today. hope you have a chance to get outside and enjoy a little bit of it. tomorrow looking good, too. this is your breakaway day for the beaches. optimism abounds for your weekend forecast down at the coastline. right now here in washington, we sit at a very pleasant 72 degrees. it's room temperature essentially. dew points are down in to the 50s, humidity 61% for now. a north wind at 12 miles per hour. a little bit of a refreshing breeze out there. rainfall amounts from yesterday's thunderstorms typical. widespread hits and misses. half an inch in leesburg and sterling. just a half an inch in annapolis. but a lot of spots completely missed out by the rain yet

afternoon. morning temperatures are now in the 60s and low 70s. going to be a nice out door weather day today. i'd say out door recess, but a lot of the kids obviously gone for the summer. outside temperatures in the 60s to our north, but here's the big change from yesterday. the due point temperatures are now 15 to 20 degrees lower than they were at the same time yesterday. so your body's natural air conditioning, the ability to evaporate moisture off of your skin when the air is drier, your body's air conditioner work as lot more effectively and as a result today and tomorrow the sweat factor will be greatly reduced. so that is welcome news. today sunshine, delightful out there. sun doesn't go down until 8:21 this evening. highs will read to the mid and high 80s. if you're headed down to the beach, great beach weather for today, tomorrow, and i think even sunday is going to be reasonable at the beach. but rain chances are on the up and up as we get towards sunday afternoon, sunday night and into monday. and then after that, back into the low 90s once again for the middle of next week.

>> we'll enjoy it while we can. american legion bridge traffic between tyson's corner and the i-270 spur moving along very nicely. 66 on the approach to the beltway okay. word of a broken down vehicle in the roadway and an earlier accident just inside the beltway. let's head on out, check the rails. metro still doing fine. vre, fredericksburg 302 is slightly delayed. marc rail, we have delays on brunswick 870 and 890 and reminder that 892 and 894 are canceled today. pat? the tyson's connector may be running out of gas. fairfax county leaders are considering shutting down the taxpayer funded shuttle program according to a report in the examiner. the shuttle started in november and it runs a loop through the tyson's area about every ten minutes from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

the problem is that it picks up fewer than 100 passengers on an average day, but it costs about a million dollars a year to operate. the fairfax county board of supervisors plans to take another look at the shuttle program in september. it may just be the most secretive social event of the year. wedding bells will ring in one small new york town tomorrow. chelsea clinton is marrying her long time boyfriend marc mezvinsky. and tracie potts is live on capitol hill and long time viewers of channel 4 will recall the mother of the groom, marjorie margulies, who was a reporter here for many years. some back in the '80s certainly and before that, as well, and we wish her h the very best on this big event coming up. and we talked about how secretive this is. what do we know about the security that is surrounding this? >> reporter: you can imagine because she's the daughter of a former president, the daughter of a current secretary of state, that security will be massive, no to the mention this super

secret a-list guest list that we are just starting to hear some leaks about. so from what we've heard, first of all this is going to be a no fly zone over this new york mansion where it's happening. that's from saturday afternoon until early sunday morning. the wedding is saturday evening according to what we understand. and the security alone we're told is going to cost about $200,000 because you've got to consider when you have something this massive in a very small town, you have a lot of people who quite frankly are probably coming with their own security, they'll be shuttled back and forth between the wedding site, the hotels, probably after party, so there's going to be a lot of security and it's going to cost a lot of money. >> we're just beginning to hear some of the names on the gust list. any names you can give us? >> reporter: well, we've heard that barbra streisand may be there and you know she was a very close trend during the clinton years. oprah winfrey may be there. and interestingly i was reading some information from the local

newspaper, people there, the locals are very excited. somebody put one of the local merchants put a sign in their window that said oprah, please stop and try my products and put them on your show. so you can imagine the people there are very excited to live in this very small town and see all of these famous people coming by this weekend. >> i can imagine. tracie potts reporting live. thanks very much. >> reporter: sure. a passenger who created a disturbance on board a flight out of d.c. was arrested after takeoff. the man boarded the plane at reagan national airport on its way to low began airport in boston, but sources say the man was disruptive on the tarmac. even before the plane left. the pilots went back to the gate and the man was taken into custody, so he was arrested before takeoff. law enforcement sources did not specify what the man said or what he did, but they did say no passengers were ever in any danger. some good news for residents in prince george's county. what is happening there that hasn't happened there in 35 years. also ahead this morning, a

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let's see if we have any obstacles to impede the flow this morning and we're looking good. sun comes up along the 95 corridor headed on up from stafford all the way to the capital beltway moving tloonk very nicely. very minute hal delays just for the merging traffic in maryland. i-95 northbound and southbound just above the capital beltway, doing well. let's head on out to the rails and update you. metro reporting no delays. vre a delay on train 302 from fredericksburg. and then brunswick 870 and 890, those trains are running 11 and 12 minutes respectively minutes behind schedule and that's addition to the train chance lagss we' cancellations we've been reporting earlier. we shouldn't see any main problems this morning if you take metro's red line to work. power lines fell on the tracks between the silver spring and forest glenn stations yesterday afternoon. >> it caused delays for thousands of commuters and left dozens stuck on one train for hours.

megan mcgrath is live right how in silver spring and she has more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, joe. yeah, the good news here is that folks who ride the red line, you're not going to encounter any problems this morning. everything is back to normal. but it was a pretty hairy ride for 41 passenger on a train that got tangled up with downed power lines. remember the thunderstorms that blew new just a little bit before 4:00 yesterday, that storm actually brought down power lines. they fell down on to the track. a metro train that was traveling between the forest glenn and silver springs stations ran over that live wire. the wire got wrapped around the wheels. so the train had to come to a screeching halt.passengers had to wait on board until the line was deenergized and it was safe for them to off load. they were on that train for about 2 1/2 hours. >> they said we have to wait one hour. after that, not only one hour, but we wait three hours.

so that is not good. >> all things considered, things came together safely. >> first when the train stopped, i thought it would be something where we would just move on. conductor kept saying we'll move momentarily, we'll move momentarily. about ten times after that, that's when would he realized we would be stuck for a period of time. >> reporter: that situation has all been cleared up.line was removed from the tracks and things are normal on the red line. however, we are seeing some issues on marc rail's brunswick line as a result of that incident yesterday. basically there's a federal law that says that train crews have to have a certain amount of time off for rest in between shifts. there were so many delays yesterday that some of those trains on the brunswick line did not return back home until very light in the evening. those crews did not get the amount of rest that's required by law, so they are not able to operate the trains this morning. so we have a number of

cancellations. trains that are not going to operate on the brunswick line this morning until those workers can get enough rest. what we're being told is that they are moving things around, they're calling people in, and that while it's a problem this morning, it should not be a problem for the evening rush hour. i should also mention that metro is honoring marc rail tickets. so if you're going to not be able to jump on your normal train, if you hop over on metro, you can still use that same ticket. pat, back to you. pepco crews are still work to go restore power to thousands of area residents still in the dark after sunday's storms. most have their electricity back, but about 2200 in montgomery county still have no power. in prince george's county, about 234 are still without power and just 55 pepco customers in the district right now are still waiting. metro riders will ve a little longer to pad their pockets in preparation for new fare hikes. the second phase of metro's fare increase is set to take effect on monday, but it will it will

mota place in two parts on monday, a new 20 cent peak of the peak fee will take effect just for weekday afternoons. the 20 cent increase will not apply to the morning peak of the peak fares until later this month. metro says this two step increase was needed to allow more time to upgrade fare gates to handle the fare hike. the tyson's connector days may be numbered. fairfax county leaders are thinking of shutting down that taxpayer funded shuttle bus program. according to a report in the washington examiner newspaper, it started in november and runs a loop through the tyson's area about every ten minutes from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. the problem is that it pick abouts up fewer than 100 passengers on an average day and costs about a million dollars a year to operate. the fairfax county board of supervisors plans to take another look at the shuttle program in september. crime is down to its lowest level in at least 35 years in prince george's county.

police statistics show crime has fallen in almost every major category over the past five years in the county. homicides are down 14%. forcible rapes dropped 11%, burglaries down 4%. and the number of stolen vehicles fell 6% since 2005, criminal homicides are down 43%. well, a nurse's strike could be looming at one d.c. hospital. washington hospital center is waiting to learn whether it could be without its regular nursing staff for a 24 hour period. the hospital's 1600 registered nurses voted last night whether to go on a one day strike. the result of that vote is expected to be announced on monday. this strike would be to protest the dismissal of 18 nurses who were fired because they did not make to work during the blizzards back this february. the hospital says it will bring in temporary nursing staff if the strike does occur. the state of arizona wasted no time filing a federal appeal to block an injunction of controversial measures in the

new immigration raw. key provisions would have is allowed police to ask people their legal status and required immigrants to carry papers at all times. yesterday hundreds on both sides of the issue took to the streets of downtown phoenix but the injunction did not stop sheriff's deputies from their planned immigration crackdown. phoenix area deputies arrested people in a sweep designed to catch illegal immigrants. >> we're not going to let protesters hold this sheriff and my office hostage because they don't want us to book people in to the jail. >> backers of the arizona law say police can still demand prove of citizenship if they have reason to doubt a person's status. >> 6:08 is our time. 70 degrees out there. coming up, he just cannot seem to get out of the dog house. what is next for albert haynesworth now that he failed coach shanahan's conditioning test.

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a between good friday morning. we're in store is for a lovely out door today. 72 at the statehouse in annapolis, 70 right now in the plains. 70 also in waldorf. beauty of a day coming our way. 100% sunshine. sun is just now sneaking up over the eastern horizon. it's up until 8:20 this evening. and if you're doing a little betting on the bay today, great weather on the bay today and tomorrow. bay water temperature 83 now. ocean water temperature 75. so still a little on the cool side at the beaches. chopper 4 on the job for us this morning. live pictures of i-270 right at the spur. and looks like we're moving along very nicely. light volume of traffic. a couple slow spots and, yes, the lonely school buses back in service soon.

northbound 270 looking good up to frederick. new york avenue very quiet. travel lanes open. and looks like we're doing pretty well well of the major roadways out toward dulles airport smooth sailing. 6:13 now. 70 may file a lawsuit. sgloond. and a woman talks about what it was like to wake up with a 300 pound grizzly biting her arm. and it's being called the wedding of the decade. what we now know about chelsea clinton's wedding this weekend.

charlie rangel has apparticipantsly reached a plea deal, according to sources cho to the talks. it's still not clear how many of the 13 ethics violations charges rangel would accept in this deal, but republicans say not so fast. representative michael mccall says rangel was given an opportunity to negotiate a deal during the investigation phase, but that opportunity has passed and that they're now in the trial phase. the house ethics panel investigating rangel 's conduct held its first meeting yesterday. ousted usda employee shirley sherrod says she plans to sue the conservative blog who are posted the edited video clip of sherrod online which made her

out of context remarks sound racially charged. the video prompted the us dcht a to ask for her resignation. she's since been offered a new job with the agency and the obama administration has apologized. sherrod is still considering whether or not to take the job. the president heads to detroit this morning to visit gm and chrysler plants. this on the heels of a white house report highlighting what the administration called success stories of the auto industry bailout. without the bailout, the white house says the auto industry could have lost more than a million jobs. instead they say automakers have hired 55,000 since the bail squoout. but ford is thriving because customers are rewarding them for not taking taxpayer money. republicans say the bailout and taxes on businesses are actually hurting manufacturing. perhaps you have heard the buzz about the clinton wedding. perhaps you were on another planet, but in fact the former first daughter chelsea clinton

will get married this weekend, in fact, tomorrow.rehear the rehearsal dinner tonight is reportedly on a 300-year-old barn on a 525 acre private estate in new york. the theme we're told is country chic. many wearing jeans and blazers. saturday's wedding will be on the grounds of astor court. state troopers won't confirm the wedding but say they are prepared for extra people. >> we expect a significant influx of people and vehicles in to the rhinebeck area which is typical during any summer weekend. furthermore, there will be an area where parking will be prohibited. >> well, state police say there will not be any additional overtime costs for this weekend's event and they are

providing the necessary support by shifting schedules they say. brides get to grab wedding gown for pennies on the dollar. it's a bargain shopper's dream. designer wedding gowns for a traction of the price. but you may not want to get caught up in the middle ever things because could you get trampled. and here's a live look outside filene's basement. you can see here that several brides to be have gathered to try to get their hands on a deal. these ladies are hoping to get a wedding dress for as low as 249 bucks. each bride has her plan of attack. >> my helpers plan on getting in there, grab as many dresses as we can. and, you know, show my team

members what to look for. run, grab, fight, do what we have to do. >> run, grab, fight. dozens have lined up overnight to try to get these bargain gowns. some even camped out in tents as you can see. some brides have been working out for the event so she could pump up and tone their tummies. the exercises included upper body strength train, wedding dresses can get pretty heavy especially when you're carrying as many as you can grab. albert haynesworth will try again today to pass a conditioning test that he failed yesterday. haynesworth took a bathroom break we're told halfway through and mike shanahan made him start

all over and the end result was a failing grade on that test. past of the test that kept him from practicing with the rest of the team. haynesworth says he just wants to play football. shanahan, though, says he must pass the conditioning test first. obviously you'd hike him to be in the type of shape that most of our players are in and the bottom line is we're going to get him in shape. he's going to be on our football team and he'll play at the level we'd like him to play. then he's got to be in great football shape. >> haynesworth was, quote, first class all the way when he learned he had failed the test. >> you'll have to wait a little longer to see stephen strasburg pitch again. he's on the 15 day disabled list because of his sore shoulder. strasburg was scratched from tuesday night's game after he had trouble getting loose in the bull pen just before the game.

the nats say there is nothing seriously wrong with him, they're just being extremely carefully. manager jim rig he will man says he expects strasburg to pitch again this season. strasburg won't be on the mound for a while, with you miss iowa usa will be. katherine connors will be throwing out the first pitch before the big game on phillies. why did you care, how did this come to be is this turns out she was the butt of a joke that nationals pitcherly gel bow tease take made after he started instead of strasburg. his remark was and you'll recall when he came out tuesday, people bo ochled him. he said people started booing me because they didn't want me to pitch. they didn't even see him throw a pitch yet. it's like you hear miss iowa and you say iowa, and then you see her up close and you say, wow, she's gorgeous. so she's going to be there as a guest, i guess, of mr. b of mr..

>> andt' in washington. >> good looking day outside. anything you want to do outside, you're not going to get to blame the weatherman for interfering. 71 degrees downtown. 69 in arlington this morning. 64 in prince william county. 61 in presented rick maryland. some of our coldest locations might even be a few upper fifth on the map. nice day today, 100% sunshine. 87 your high today. 85 tomorrow with the clouds coming on back. rain looking pretty likely as we get towards sunday. jarpry, over to you. american legion bridge, no worries. let head on over and see how we're doing if you're going to be traveling the beltway around river road, on over toward 355 inner loop in particular look out, we're going to have some sunshine delays. a quick check elsewhere, no

worries. marc rail 870 and 890 about 12 minutes behind schedule. a lot of optimism in the gulf this morning. a permanent fix for the oil disaster could be in place before the end of the weekend. also lee boyd malvo sits down with a famous hollywood actor to talk about the d.c. sniper spree, but police don't believe his story. a woman talks about how she survived a grizzly bear attack in the middle of the night. the same bear killed ano

rangers have trapped a grizzly bear that they believe is responsible for a series of attacks outside yellowstone. >> they trapped her and her cubs yesterday and are conducting dna tests to see whether the bear is linked to the a tacks. one man was killed and to others were injured as they slept on wednesday morning in separate attacks. one of the survivors says the only way she made it through the attack was to play dead. >> i couldn't believe the strength of this animal. i could just feel everything crushing and i knew i didn't have a chance fighting that, so

i had one chance and that was to play dead and hope she went away. and she did. >> if the dna tests show that this is the bear that attacked, it it will likely be put down, although no words this morning what with a happen to the cubs. lee boyd malvo opens up to william shatner about the d.c. sniper shootings. and wire on the tracks cause problems. there are still lingering problems. and we'll get you ready for the weekend. chuck will have the latest on the weather.

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welcome back to "news 4 today." >> it's friday, july 30th, and it is a gorgeous friday morning. the weekend getting off to a splendid start. >> look at the clear sky. >> today is one of those days that you can walk out and just finally get a little clean fresh air in your lungs. >> open the windows, open the sun roof. >> good day to be outside today. a nice north breeze coming for some air conditioning from mother nature this afternoon. a bit of a breeze, 10 to 20 miles an hour this afternoon. good kite flying weather.

65 degrees in clinton maryland, this morning. 64 manassas. now 71 in capital heights. 68 in german town. dew points back down into the 50s. temperatures mid to high 80s today and tomorrow. next chance of some steadier rain showers on your sunday. let's take a live look along interstate 66 this to the sunshine this morning. loaded up, had somebody with a flat tire as you make the trip on in toward the capital beltway. that's out of the body way. and then the accident inside the beltway, 66 at route 7, also gone. downtown, new york avenue, 3rd street tunnel, to worries. on the rails, metro no delays. fret ricksburg 302 on vre slightly delayed. and pretty good size delays marc rail, brunswick 890 and 870 almost 15 minute delays on both those trains. there's one more day left in

july, but it's already become the deadliest month for u.s. forces in afghanistan. overnight we learned three more u.s. service members have been killed. a nato statement rae leased early this morning says the americans died in two separate blasts. those three deaths bring the u.s. death toll in afghanistan to at least 63 according to the associated press. that's the highest one month total in the history of the nearly nine year war. >> metro's red line is running smoothly this morning. power lines fell on the tracks between the silver spring and forest glenn stations questioned afternoon. that caused delays for thousands of commuters and left dozens of passengers on one train stranded for several hours. megan mcgrath is live with more. >> reporter: good morning. things are back to normal on the red line this morning. that's good news for commuters. but about 41 passengers had a very hairy ride yesterday afternoon when they had to be stopped on the tracks for several hours because of a

downed power line. that power line was brought down in a storm that blew through our area yesterday afternoon. the line actually fell down on to the rail tracks. a metro train traveling between forest glen and silver springs ran over it and entangled around the wheels. the wheels thatted to come to a screeching halt and those folks sat on board that train for several hours, nearly three hour, until that line could be tee activated and they could be off loaded on to another rail car. so not a great situation if all those people stuck there. >> they said we have to wait one hour. after that, not only one hour, but we wait three hours. so that is not good. >> all things considered, things came together safely. >> first i thought it would be something where we would just move on and the conductor kept saying we'll move moment tearily. about ten times after that, you know, then that's when we

realized we'd be stuck for a period of time. >> reporter: and that situation was all cleared up yesterday. the line is no longer across the track and things are back to normal on the red line. however, we're still seeing some issues this morning on marc because they share the same rail tracks as the metro system. so the marc trains got all backed up and some didn't return until very late in the evening. there's a federal law that requires a certain amount of rest for train crews in between shifts because they got back so late last night because of the tie-up, they didn't get that period of rest. so we have seen a number of cancellations on the brunswick line this morning as a result of that that should only affect the morning on marc. things should be back to normal by the evening rush. joe, back to you. >> megan, thanks very much. and pepco crews men while are still work to go restore power to thousands of area residents still in the dark after sunday's storm.

most customers had their electricity again, about 2200 customers in montgomery county still have no power. in rinse george's, the total is 229. and just 54 pepco customers in the district have no power right now. a former manassas high school teacher has pleaded guilty. kevin ricks entered the guilty plea yesterday. but he's now being investigated on federal child pornography charges. investigators say they found pictures and a notebook describing sexual acts that ricks committed with former students. prosecutors say the school had been warn of inappropriate behavior and that he may have been stopped sooner had they paid attention to the red flags. a man has been indicted in the death of wednesdayly brown. they charged anthony milton for

participating in the trooper's murder. brown was killed last month while working as an off duty security guard. police say the gun used belong itted to milton, but they don't believe he pulled the trigger. if he's quikts order all of the charge, he could face life in prison plus 20 years. there may be someone or a couple people out there who almost took the d.c. sniper attacks. lee boyd malvo claims that two other people planned to take part in the shooting spree, but eventually backed out. malvo made those claims in an interview with william shatner on a and e. he claims to be connected to more than 40 shootings. he's been officially linked to 27 shootings including the 10 deadly shootings in the three week shooting spree that terrorized the washington region. he's currently being held in a virginia prison. the other convicted sniper was

sentenced to death and executed last year. why those in charge of controlling the oil spill in the gulf of mexico say a permanent fix may be only days away. also the estimates for just how many graves were mishandled. and 68 degrees. haven't seen those temperatures in a while. and look at that beautiful sky. we'll get the traffic and weathe

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of our western suburbs. 61 in it frederick, maryland. 68 in german town. 69 in fairfax and manassas this morning. 64 there. temperatures in the 50s up to our north and west, so a north early breeze, more cool, dry air in the area. so off to a fantastic start today. plenty of sunshine. temperature its mid to high 80s today. mid-80s tomorrow with clouds sneaking back into the area on your saturday afternoon. might have a shower after the sun goes down on saturday, but rain looking a lot more likely for your sunday. let's see how we're doing. american legion bridge both the inner loop and outer loop between i-66 and i-95 looking good. let's head over and see how we're doing elsewhere. florida avenue at this morning where they continue to build the virtual traffic circle there, looking good there. a little volume. marsh words from pentagon

leaders for the head of a website that leaked secret documents while the prime suspect coming to the washington area. a nurse's strike is looming. and a big sale takes place taken and dozens of women have spent the night camping out on this sidew

the "wall street journal" reports that defense officials say they have found concrete evidence that links an army private to the leaks of thousands of classified documents related to the war in afghanistan. private first class bradley manning already faces a court marshall for the previous leak of a classified video showing an american helicopter firing on civilians in iraq. two reuters journalists were killed in that attack. nbc news has learned that bradley manning could be tried at either fort mire yer or quan. and they say they're still trying to determine the potential security risks brought on by the leaks and they came

down hard on the website that released the documents. >> will is no accountability. there is no sense of responsibility. >> the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an afghan family. the pentagon says the fbi has joined the criminal probe into the leak. officials say that manning is essentially on a suicide watch out of fear that he may try to harm himself. more than 6,000 graves at arlington national cemetery might be mislabeled. that estimate is far higher than the 211 initially reported. the revelation surfaced yesterday during a congressional hearing on the scandal. the cemetery's former superintendent is taking full responsibility. john metzler testified that his staff and a lack of resources are to blame for the controversy that cost him his job. but that didn't satisfy senators

who grilled him and his deputy. >> did the chief of staff of the army ever see a document from that you we've got a problem, we found cremated remarngs we don't know where they belong? did that ever occur? >> we annotated the reports. we buried the remains as unknowns. i did not send a memo up to chief of staff. they were forced to retire after army investigators found the unmarked or mislabeled graves. and now to the gulf oil disaster. a crucial weekend is coming up in the final preparations for permanently sealing the broken well that's been leaking oil. one small part of the huge cleanup could plug up the damaged rig for good if preliminary work this weekend goes as planned, a method intended to ease the job of a permanent fix could start monday or sooner. the static kill that involves pumping heavy mud into the busted well from the top is on track for completion next week. that means less work for

skimming vessels, an economic life line for out of work fishermen. >> we need to adjust our resources to what the requirement is. >> the fractured rig is fix iffed and there is less oil in the gulf, the mission will shift from response to long term recovery. new today, mexican soldiers have killed a leader of a drug cartel. he was third in sxland of the cartel and the founder of mexico's methamphetamine trade. soldiers raided his posh hideout last night. he was killed trying to escape. officials say his death will significantly affect the operations of the cartel. ousted usda employee shirley sherrod says she will conserve the blogger who posted an edited video clip of sherrod earlier this month which made sherrod's

out of context remarks sound racially charged. that video prompted the usda to ask for sherrod's resignation. she has since been offered a new job with the agency and the obama administration has apologized. sherrod says she's still considering the job offer. new york democrat charlie rangel has reached a plea deal in his ethics investigation, that according to sources cho to the talks. it's still not clear how many of the 13 ethics violation charges rangel will accept, but republicans say not so fast. the top republican on the panel, representative michael mccall of texas, says rangel was given the opportunity to negotiate a deal during the investigation phase but that opportunity has passed and that they are now in the trial phase. the house ethics panel investigating rangel 's conduct held it first meeting yesterday. president obama heads to detroit today to visit the gm and chrysler workers. courtney reagan joins us live with more on this story. good morning, courtney.

>> reporter: good morning. he sure moves fast. he gets everywhere, right? fresh off the if you said raising trail from here in, no, president obama is headed to michigan where he'll visit general motors and chrysler. the white house is making a push for the auto bailout to be seen as a success. gm and chrysler received a total of $60 billion from the federal government. the white house warned that over a million jobs would have been lost without the bailout. 55,000 new autoworkers have been hired since, though the industry lost 330,000 jobs between june of 2008 and june of 2009. toyota announced another major recall on thursday citing steering problems in 373,000 aval avalons. that includes the 2000 to 2004 models. they also announced a recall in the lex us a lx 470 suv, but for an unrelated steering issue. that recall affects 39,000 vehicles. and there have been six reports of problems in the u.s., three accidents, but luckily no

injuries. >> all right, court thi, thanks very much. have a great weekend. well, delta air lines is adding some flights out of reagan national airport this fall. beginning on october 31st, 21 new nonstop flights will be on the schedule. this is all part of an east coast expansion for the airline. destinations include several florida cities as well as st. louis, hartford and columbus. tickets for the new flights will go on sale tomorrow. a nurse's strike could be looming at a d.c. hospital. the washington hospital center is waiting to learn if it could be without its regular nursing staff for 24 hours. the hospital's 1600 registered nurses voted last night on whether or not to go on a one day strike. the result of the vote is expected on monday. the strike would be to protest the dismissal of 18 nurses who were let go because they didn't make to work during the february blizzard. the hospital says it will bring in temporary nursing staff if the strike happens.

6:51. time to get the traffic and weather on the 1s. >> i hope everybody can enjoy it because today is another one of those great days. we don't get a whole lot of them especially it ththis july. the number one warmest july on record here in washington. that follows of course the number one warmest june. what a summer it has been. outside on your friday morning, temperatures are in the comfortable range once again. we're at 71 degrees downtown right now, but the most important number, dew point temperatures back down into the 50s. anytime our dew points are below 60, that's when it feels nice outside. so our dew point right now 56, the mort wind at 10 miles per hour, nearly three-quarters of an inch of rain. first roundabout 2:00 in the afternoon, a couple more showers later on in the day, but it typical of summer thunderstorms, some people get almost an inch and most everybody else got

missed out all together. 70s to our south. 50s and 60s to our north. but, again, thou the due point temperatu dew point temperatures have been drop. that will really make the day feel like a very pleasant day to be outside enjoying the good weather. high pressure in charge for now, cooler today, lower humidity, as well. and this area of high pressure heads for the eastern seaboard gradually, the return flow of warmer and more moisture laden air comes back into the picture, but that's probably not until late saturday and then into the day on sunday. but most of your weekend is looking a-okay. for today, sunshine, delightful. highs in the mid to upper 80s today. if you're headed on down to the beaches this weekend, saturday and sunday, looking good. although i do think at the beaches you may have a chance at a shower on sunday. our rain chances on sunday are pretty good, in the 60% range. so enjoy today and tomorrow's sunshine. >> let's head on out, we're

following breaking news not too far from dulles airport, chopper 4 over the scene of a serious crash on northbound route 606, put it is just north of route 50. right now the northbound lanes appear to be blocked. it was a car that went off the roadway. list, fire and rescue crews is he dealing with this, so 606 as you head north from 50 trying to make the trip on up be forewarned, it it is going to be blocked for a little while longer. very hefty backup. let's head over and see how we're doing elsewhere. 395 slammed big time now leaving the beltway this to the sunshine headed on up toward landmark and sure linkt metro rails no delays. brunswick 870 and 890 delayed and remaineder 894 which leaves at 7:10 this morning is canceled. pat? thanks, jerry. the second phase of metro's fare increase set to take effect on monday will now take place in

two parts. on monday, a new 20 cent peak of the peak fee will take effect just for weekday afternoons. the 20 cent increase won't apply to morning fares until later in the month. metro says it's needed to allow more time to upgrade fare gates to handle the fare hike. you can almost hear the wedding bells. clel city clinton will marry marc mezvinsky this weekend. marc, of course, the son of former long time channel 4 reporter marjorie marg heuliema. the rehearsal dinner is being held tonight on a 525 acre private says at a time in new york p the theme is country chic and many are expected to bewaring blue jeans and blazers. saturday's wedding will be on the grounds of astor courts, a private french style mansion overlooking the hudson river. state troopers won't even confirm that a wedding is taking place this weekend, but they say they're prepared for extra

people who might show up for whatever might happen. >> we expect a significant influx p people and vehicles in to the rhinebeck area which is typical during any summer weekend. furthermore, there will be an area in and around rhinebeck four corners where parking will be prohibited completely. >> don't know whether that's typical. the area where the wedding will h take place will be under a no fly zone from saturday afternoon until sunday afternoon. well, you've heard about the running of the bulls. how about the running of the brides? blids to be are getting ready to grab wedding gowns for pennies on the dollar. this is happening at filene's basement in friendship heights starting at 8:00 this morning. but you might not want to get caught in the middle of this because you could get trampled.

there are roughly 1700 gowns and each bride has her plan of attack. my helperses plan on running around, grab as many as we can. and, you know, show my team members what to look for. run, grab, fight, do what we have to do. every man for themselves. every woman. >> every woman. of course. >> and here is the live look now outside filene's where the ladies are all lined up. they've been out there a lot of them since last night. they are hoping to get a wedding dress for as little as 249 bucks.